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The ImPact

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
The ImPact is a global nonprofit membership network of families, family offices, foundations and businesses committed to impact investing that aligns capital with social and environmental goals. It offers insights, research, events and tools to help members integrate values-based investment strategies and create measurable impact through investment decisions.
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1 research item

Impact Frontiers

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Impact Frontiers is a finance-focused NGO advancing impact investing practice.It helps asset owners, asset managers and advisors integrate social and environmental impact into investment decision-making through frameworks, research, case studies and peer learning programmes, supporting impact measurement, management and capital allocation across public and private markets.
Organisation
1 research item

Investing in tomorrow: A guide to building climate-resilient investment portfolios

Investment Leaders Group
This guide outlines how investors can integrate physical climate risks into listed equity and debt portfolios, strengthen portfolio resilience, and mobilise capital for adaptation through asset allocation, due diligence, engagement, and collaboration across policy, finance and the real economy.
Research
15 January 2025

Making money talk nicely: Biodiversity impact assessment for investors

This study compares eight biodiversity impact assessment tools used by investors. It finds low consistency in company rankings due to non-standardised methods, weak transparency and limited validation, concluding that reliance on single tools risks mispricing nature-related financial risk and calling for improved disclosures and spatially explicit approaches.
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26 June 2025

Our predicament: The fundamental flaws of predominant economic systems - and the cultures scaffolding them

This report synthesises interviews with global thinkers to diagnose structural flaws in dominant economic systems. It argues that extractive capitalism, growth imperatives, inequality and ecological overshoot underpin a planetary predicament, and frames the challenge as navigation towards regenerative, responsibility-based economies rather than problem-solving.
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30 April 2025

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

This report analyses global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. It identifies an annual loss of 273 gigatonnes, which accelerated by 36% in the period's latter half. Globally, glaciers shed approximately 5% of their volume, significantly exceeding losses from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
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19 February 2025

Tackling the transformation: The challenges of operationalizing corporate sustainability goals and how to overcome them

ERM SustainAbility Institute
ERM’s Transformation Survey analyses global corporate progress in operationalising sustainability goals. It finds stronger performance on social issues than climate or nature, identifies weak sustainability-linked incentives as the main barrier, and highlights underinvestment in training, incentives, and ESG data systems.
Research
13 February 2024

Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action

Using a survey of 130,000 people across 125 countries, the study finds strong global support for climate action, but widespread underestimation of others’ willingness to act. This perception gap may hinder cooperation; correcting it could materially strengthen climate action.
Research
9 February 2024

Leveraging physical climate risk data

Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)
The report outlines data requirements for assessing physical climate risks, highlighting gaps in hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and adaptation information. It reviews emerging tools, stresses limitations in insurance and asset-level data, and recommends capacity building, collaboration, and improved data systems to enhance financial sector climate-risk analysis.
Research
29 September 2025

A bibliometric analysis of four decades of shareholder activism research

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
This bibliometric review of 1,055 works (1983–2021) charts the evolution of shareholder activism research. It highlights a shift from financial drivers to sustainability-oriented goals. While interdisciplinarity is increasing, disciplinary silos remain. The authors advocate for holistic approaches evaluating non-financial impacts alongside traditional metrics.
Research
19 February 2025

The cost of capital: Lowering the cost of capital for climate and SDG finance in emerging markets and developing economies

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The report finds EMDEs face systematically inflated capital costs due to biased credit ratings and structural financing constraints, hindering climate and SDG investment. It outlines ten reforms, including revised rating methodologies, longer maturities, expanded guarantees, and enhanced MDB and blended finance, to lower financing costs and unlock growth.
Research
19 April 2025

Blueprint for intelligent economies: AI competitiveness through regional collaboration

Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler International (KPMG International)
The report outlines a framework for building intelligent economies through sustainable AI infrastructure, diverse datasets and ethical guardrails. It highlights collaboration across sectors and regions to support inclusive AI adoption, guide investment, strengthen governance and enable responsible technological development.
Research
7 January 2025

Preparing for next-generation information warfare with generative AI

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
The report analyses how generative AI reshapes information warfare by enabling scalable manipulation, behavioural influence and dual-use knowledge diffusion. It highlights heightened risks to civilians, military operations and international law, stressing gaps in protection and the need for anticipatory, whole-of-society resilience strategies.
Research
10 December 2024

Competing in the age of disruption: A business briefing by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
The report argues that global industrial transition is inevitable and accelerating, creating material risks and opportunities. It urges businesses to pursue innovation, reshape market rules and influence policy to secure competitiveness, manage systemic threats and drive sustainable market transformation.
Research
19 May 2025

Creating value from big data in the investment management process: A workflow analysis

CFA Institute
The report analyses how investment professionals use AI and big data, noting moderate but rising adoption, multihoming across tools, and key challenges including skills gaps, data quality, and model opacity. It highlights organisational priorities such as upskilling and workflow automation to enhance efficiency and decision making.
Research
7 January 2025

AI governance behind the scenes: Emerging practices for AI impact assessments

Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
The report outlines emerging organisational practices for AI impact assessments, highlighting common process steps, information gathering challenges, evolving risk-assessment methods, and difficulties evaluating mitigation effectiveness. It notes increasing cross-functional governance, reliance on third-party transparency, and the need for stronger metrics, education, and executive support.
Research
1 December 2024
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